We all know most of the modern Tech World is very, very Leftist. And has been from its mid-1990s inception. Which is ok. But all the while, the relationship between the Tech World and our $4-trillion-per-year Leftist government has grown exponentially. Which ain’t nearly so ok.

The Atlantic just polled a panel of Silicon Valley heavy hitters. The results are…unsurprising. 88% of them are voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton for president. ZERO percent of them are voting for Republican nominee Donald Trump – not one person. Shocker.

We conservatives don’t mind people who disagree with us. Less and less, however – the Left isn’t returning the favor.

Conservative icon William F. Buckley once said “Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.”

He was right. And these Tech World Leftists are more and more using their market dominance to prop up Leftists – and remove conservatives from their platforms, and their World.

An important preface: What they’re doing is not censorship. The First Amendment protects us from government speech infringement – and only government speech infringement. Private companies can handle speech on their private platforms any way they wish.

Private companies are also protected by the First Amendment freedom to assemble, or not assemble, any way they wish. (Unless you’re a conservative or traditionalist. The federal government, for instance, is currently in court trying to force nuns to pay for abortions under Obamacare.)

We conservatives don’t want the government compelling these private companies to engage in speech or assembly they do not like.

Our concern arises – because the $4 trillion-per-year federal government is increasingly fusing with these companies. A government that is with ever-greater-frequency issuing regulations that make no sense, economic or otherwise, to anyone – save for its Silicon Valley beneficiaries.

Let us examine just a small part of the cavalcade of Silicon Valley ideological favoritism.

Remember Brendan Eich? He was the Chief Executive Officer of web browser company Mozilla – until he was forced to resign in 2014. Because he privately donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 – which would have prevented homosexual marriage. Mozilla being uber-tolerant of all viewpoints – save for the like of Eich’s.

Twitter also “shadow bans” conservatives and stealth-promotes Leftists: “According to the (inside-Twitter) source, Twitter maintains a ‘whitelist’ of favored Twitter accounts and a ‘blacklist’ of unfavored accounts. Accounts on the whitelist are prioritized in search results, even if they’re not the most popular among users. Meanwhile, accounts on the blacklist have their posts hidden from both search results and other users’ timelines.”

Google owns YouTube – so YouTube is in on the game.

YouTube slapped a warning on a Trump video about Clinton’s health – and hid it from searches behind their “Restricted Mode” firewall, erected for what they deem “inappropriate content.”

YouTube banned a video exposing the terror connections of the Muslim Brotherhood. But Google is, like Twitter and Facebook, loathe to ban terrorist accounts.

And on, and on, and…

Again, I don’t want the government doing anything about any of this to any of these companies. The problem is, the government is doing so much FOR these companies – it makes it look an awful lot like a whole lot of quid meeting an avalanche of quo.

About that – we should all be concerned.

This is a guest post by Seton Motley Founder and President of Less Government

And yet, YouTube is packed with pro-Nazi nostalgia video – film clips from “Triumph of the Will” for starters. Just try googling “The Horst Wessel Song” (wow!). Every pro-Nazi propaganda film ever made during the 1930s seems to be there, shown in a very positive light, with inspirational music, etc. (minus images from Auschwitz, of course). And yet they are censoring conservatives? So, Republicans are “worse” than Nazis? Or, are there just so many tera-bytes of content on YouTube that nobody can monitor?

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Cheers to YouTube for not deleting or revising history to fit the selected narrative that various political groups on the Political Right and Left in this country want to promote. That’s how Hitler came to power in post WWI Germany preaching to naïve young college students in Berlin’s various pubs where alternative views were not available ! As Republicans, have we not learned from the McCarthy era and his troubling call for all Americans to sign a mandatory oath of allegiance to this government ? Like it or not, full disclosure is the only viable policy in a Democratic Republic that has already strayed way too far from it’s independent roots !